Check out this thread, Andrew. I am curious about your views.
I do not believe in minarchism. I think any form of constitutionalism is doomed, while not to repeat because I do not believe history is cyclical, to at least correlate with the current system. This notion that we started off as a “free” nation that simply got lost along the way is disingenuous. Even when settlers got to Jamestown in 1607, they were utilizing government (around 1620) to protect their cartelized tobacco interests. They were the head of the courts and local offices and a plutocracy was installed even then. Now obviously this is not the same plutocracy but plutocracy is still around. It is just different people, not a different “game.” So how do I think we achieve liberty in our time, if such a thing is possible? Watch the system destroy itself. If socialism is really doomed to fail like Mises and Rothbard state in their economic theory, then we just let it fail. A lot of people want to get out and do something which is obviously fine. Right now I am more concerned with doing what makes me happy, disregarding the news and waiting for the system to collapse on itself. If seasteading happens, I might move out to one of them once they have established themselves. If a state leaves the union, same thing. Until then I just play my games and try to make smart comments about stuff.